A collection of tongue twisters that is an amusing exercise for beginning readers.

"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...

This book is a collection of poems on such facets of a day at school as heavy backpacks, spelling tests, art and music, the nurse's office and the cafeteria.

Irene Latham, who is white, and Charles Waters, who is black, present paired poems about topics including family dinners, sports, recess, and much more. This relatable collection explores different experiences of race in America.

A counting book in which one by one the little monkeys jump on the bed only to fall off and bump their heads. On board pages.

After a courtship voyage of a year and a day, Owl and Pussy finally buy a ring from Piggy and are blissfully married.

Presents an altered version of Clement C. Moore's classic Christmas poem about an old cowboy who makes his way home and encounters Santa, who helps him remember childhood memories.

In this collection of fifteen poems, young readers will meet hungry ghouls, sneaky ghosts, and frisky skeletons, all who love partying in the moonlight.

Rhyming text (modeled after the poem Over in the meadow by Olive A. Wadsworth) counts from one to ten while introducing some of the animals and their babies living in the Okefenokee Swamp. Includes a guide to swamp flora and fauna.

"Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and...